Volume 2, Number 1—January 1996
Dispatch
Unexplained Deaths Due to Possibly Infectious Causes in the United States: Defining the Problem and Designing Surveillance and Laboratory Approaches
Table 2
Unexplained deaths due to possibly infectious causes (UDPIC) among previously healthy persons by emerging infection program (EIP) site, 1992
Rate (per 100,000 population aged 1-49 years) |
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Gender |
Race |
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EIP site |
No. of UDPIC |
Overall |
Female |
Male |
Black |
White |
Other |
California* | 316 | 14.5 | 10.8 | 18.5 | 34.0 | 12.2 | 8.9 |
Connecticut† | 83 | 14.2 | 10.5 | 18.5 | 37.9 | 11.4 | -- |
Minnesota | 189 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 6.6 | 11.0 | 5.4 | 9.5 |
Oregon | 156 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 21.8 | 7.0 | 7.8 |
Total |
744 |
8.9 |
7.4 |
10.9 |
29.5 |
7.7 |
8.7 |
*Alameda, Contra, Costa, and San Francisco counties. †New Haven County. |
1The Unexplained Deaths Working Group: Grechen Rothrock, University of California at Berkeley; Duc Vugia, California Department of Health Services; James Hadler, Matt Cartter, Connecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services; James Meek, Robin Ryder, Mark Wilson, Yale University School of Medicine; Michael Osterholm, Kristine L. MacDonald, Jean Rainbow, Norman Crouch, Kathy LeDell, Minnesota Department of Health; David Fleming, Katrina Hedberg, Oregon Health Division; Don Brenner, Mark Eberhard, James Olson, Pierre Rollin, R. Gibson Parrish, CDC.